[Bioc-devel] codetoolsBioC does not suggest methods from packages not defining generic
Thanks Michael for this fix; codetoolsBioC is in need of some work (maybe not a lot) but I don't think anyone in the Seattle group will be taking this up in the near future. If you or someone in the broader community (this kind of facility is useful in R generally) is interested in taking over active maintainership please let me know. Martin
On 12/19/2013 06:55 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
PS: the case that I fixed probably shouldn't be an error at all, rather it should just suggest the necessary imports. On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Michael Lawrence <michafla at gene.com> wrote:
I tried out codetoolsBioC for fun and found that it fails to report (potentially necessary) method imports from packages that do not define the generic (just add methods). A good example is "start" -- it will not be reported for GenomicRanges under method imports. Of course, there is no way to know whether a package is using start on a GRanges, IRanges, or a time series for that matter, but it's best to be safe. Is there a maintainer that can address this? I did check-in one fix: findExternalDeps failed for cases where a package (erroneously) imported methods without importing the generic (like importMethodsFrom(GenomicRanges, "start<-") without the corresponding import from IRanges). It now throws a more informative error message. Michael
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